COURT CASES

McDonald vs. City of Chicago (2009)

-Problem:If 2nd Amendment applies to states with the 14 amendments benefits or Due Process clauses-6-28-10:Supreme Court reverses the 7th circuit to fix conflict between Chicago's gun restrictions and the 2nd amendment-Brief filed for petitions to rule that the 2nd amendment does apply to the states -signed by 58 Senators and 251 Representatives -32 states also filed brief-Decision: Concluded that the Due Proccess of Law also includes the 2nd Amendment in the 14th Amendment

District of Columbia vs. Heller (2008)

-District of Columbia law banned handgun possession >Crime to carry unregistered firearms-Police Chief can give 1 year license >Legal firearms must be dissembled or bound by a trigger lock-Heller, a special DC police, tried to register a gun to keep at home, but District refused-Filed suit, but District Court dismissed the suit-DC Circuit reversed suit. >violated 2nd Amendment-District must give Heller a license

United States vs. Cruikshank (1876)

-1st court case in which the Supreme Court got to interpret the Second Amendment-Conspiracy by Klansmen to prevent blacks from having civil rights such as bearing arms-Blacks in the South weren't protected very well by the state's governments-Case enabled political parties to use paramilitary forces